Word: berea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilbur F. Murra, of Cambridge, instructor in Education; Gerard R. Pomerat 1G, of West Springfield, Austin Teaching Fellow in Biology; John G. B. Castor 2G, of Albany, New York, David L. McVickar 2G, of Combridge, Bradford B. Owen 1G, of Berea, Ohio, Robert C. Stauffer 1G, of Minneapolis, assistants in Biology...
...father is president of Kentucky's Berea College and his younger brother vice president of Yale-in-China, but Bob Hutchins might never have turned to Education if it had not been for beauteous Maude McVeigh. He was 22, penniless and wanted to be a lawyer, but a prep-school teaching job looked like the only way he could earn enough to support a wife. Like nearly all university presidents' wives, Maude Hutchins has been roundly criticized for snobbishness. Mrs. Hutchins, however, is a New Englander with a mind of her own. Scores of faculty folk have...
...competent hillbilly who can raise $172 and railroad fare may matriculate at Berea College in the Kentucky mountains, where work for all helps keep expenses down. But the average Berea freshman spends $202 a year...
Fifteen miles out of Cleveland is rustic, somnolent Berea (pop. 6.000) whose chief industry is Cleveland Quarries Co.. whose chief ornament is Baldwin-Wallace College, and whose chief glory is Raymond Moley. Three generations of Moleys have lived in or near Berea. From his native Berea went Raymond Moley to profess politics in Cleveland's Western Reserve University, to direct the Cleveland Foundation, to investigate crime in Ohio and in New York, to profess government and public law at Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary...
Next noon the three ladies reached Crossville, Tenn., drove to the top of Cumberland Mountain Plateau to inspect a subsistence homestead project. There indefatigable Mrs. Roosevelt declined an invitation from the Mayor of Rockwood to climb the Cumberland's Mt. Roosevelt.* Instead she drove until 8 p.m. to reach Berea, Ky., and a social project dear to her heart. She dined with Berea College's president, kindly, 63-year-old William James Hutchins, father of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins. The elder Hutchins gives mountain boys and girls a higher education, helps them to earn their living...